I learned how many times I can jerk off in a day. The pandemic was hard for us single folk.
Hard and soft. Alternatingly.
How many?
It was about 6 before I hit a psychological wall and didn’t want to do it anymore that day.
Dammmm…
That’s a serious addiction. Have you gotten better at managing it?
Like I said, the pandemic was a rough time. Also that’s my all-time-best >.<
Nothing. Lockdown was the moment everyone else started living the way I pretty much already did.
Hey me too! I had friends and family asking me how I got through the days and now we all read a lot and have many plants.
I learned to stop caring so much about work. I slam my laptop shut with a vengeance at 5PM, earlier if I feel like I can get away with it.
I learned how to grow mushrooms and now I always have an ample supply.
I’ve been thinking about giving this a go. Any resources you recommend to start out with?
Mostly from Reddit unfortunately. I actually miss those communities. Uncle Ben’s tech is the method I started with. You might find some YouTube videos with that search, but I’m almost positive there is still the uncle Ben’s subreddit. You also need to find a spore supplier, of course I found mine through Reddit.
Thanks. That’s what I’ve been finding as well. Unfortunate, such a wealth of community-built knowledge and they had to go and ruin reddit.
I had a nightmare last night that Wikipedia started to enshittify. I woke up and donated $. I desperately don’t want them to follow down the drain chasing reddit and YT.
Learned how to become a “home barista”. Instead of popping a pod in my Nespresso machine I grind my own beans and brew my own coffee fresh, every morning.
I can do decent espresso art now which I’m pretty chuffed about.
I never attempted latte art, probably because the only milk foamer I have is the one that came with my newspaper machine
Better communication with my wife
I learned to repair a carburator for a vintage motorcycle with my dad. I bought the bike with the carburator in a box for $300. I probably put around $500 more into it of which new tires cost around $200.
That was more than 3 years ago and still ride it today. I’ve done done some maintenance work myself, like changing the oil, brake pads and fluid, and other minor things.
Bringing life to something old always gives so much joy…
Made some progress towards Spanish fluency. Still not fully fluent, but went up a CEFR level.
I learned how to move the ship backwards by alternating harpoon pulls.
This was before I realized that you could turn the ship using only the wheel even when you had no forward momentum.
But still, I felt like a genius the first time I backed the brigantine out of a dead end.
You sound like an old timey whaler and it’s very pleasing. Not the implications for the whales. Just the old timey sea-ness.
Hiding alcohol from my girlfriend and family.
Wanna start a business? Vodka that comes in what looks like a 24 pack of Poland springs?
That’s not good mate, please get some help
It was a joke about dystopic pandemic days, and thank you for your reasonable concern. We have this worked out.
Cool, ok, good to hear. Lol sorry, I appreciate dark humor, but have also watched a lot of alcoholics fuck their life up and cause a lot of family problems.
Drinking is definitely fucked up. I’ve had problems with that personally, friends and family sure have had their own plus with me. Once it’s really going it’s difficult to do basically anything productive at all.
I learned approximately 100 ways to cheat in online exams or exercises, even if they make you share your screen or have camera enabled, which has been immensely useful to me for reasons I do not need to explain…
I got significantly better at brewing beer.
I make my own Greek yogurt now. I like it much better than store-bought.
I improved in two languages. I’m not great at either but they’ve helped me build rapport with work colleagues and have come in handy while traveling.
I finished a master’s degree and all the skills that entails.
Can you give me some guide/steps.
I always wanted to try greek yogurt because its high in protien and nutrients, but it’s very hard to find it in stores where i live…
Getting an instapot was the difference maker. It made it a setup-and-walkaway operation. It’s also very easy to sanitize first, running a quick boil cycle with just water
And then I figured out less starter results in a thicker yogurt on the “Greek” end. It was counterintuitive, at first; I thought “more starter” = stronger end result = “Greek”, but that was not the case.
6-8 hours gives me a milder yogurt, while 8-10 hours gives me a tarter yogurt that I like for smoothies.
I learned to let go, I used to have a hard time removing people from my life, now I don’t care
Ive learned: Lockdown is mainly good
-no mandatory work from office days
-i can go motorbiking on country curvy roads, without much traffic, and feel like im on a trackday
-low traffic calm streets
-sadly plaza people dont watch tv, but they go for a short walk to the hiking places, with their 5t SUVs to take a selfie to upload on facebook.
-our government (hungary) of course does not helps small businesses while hard times, but giving even more money to the dictator’s (orban’s) strawman (lőrinc mészáros), and spending billions on useless anti-snoring devices anti-snoring devices, and very expensive, but shitty and useless chinese covid vaccines.
The lockdown really gave us a look of how if we collectively tried to not ruin the planet, how much more fun it would be, it was so nice not to have a clogged nose every morning…
Disciplined working from home. Some people seem incapable of it, either due to distraction or at the other end of the spectrum, overworking themselves.
I allow some flexibility for errands and appointments, but I start and finish at the same time every day and take my lunch at the same time.
I’m one of those who can’t. Temptation to nap is too strong. Also I have that procrastination issue where I’d rather be cleaning the floor with a toothbrush than do work, so it’s hard not to do housechores when I hit a wall in my day.
On top of that, I need more face-to-face socialization. I just do. I need to go somewhere that’s not my house every day or I spiral and it’s not pretty.
